Stalin, Dec 6 2017 - Stephen Kotkin

Book tour on his book on Stalin

[@richardhausig9493]

Prof Kotkin is a national treasure. He would have been a great stand up comic if he wasn't one of the 5 greatest historians of our time

[@hamburgerjoe4401]

yeah he's hilarious

[@alexpaun7384]

Great talk.

[@jackiwannapaint3042]

Stalin said: its the sweetest thing--to go to bed at night knowing that when you wake up in the morning one of your enemies will be dead.

[@cybnblau]

I learn more about the Stalin era from Stephen Kotkin than anyone. What a master.

[@lexbor3511]

Stephen becoming a subject of his research - boots, pacing while talking.

[@trololobochum]

"if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you" - Friedrich Carlowitsch Nietzsche.

[@user-mv6he6gl8m]

Haven't he even developed a slight limp...

[@waltermaderner2126]

😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@waltermaderner2126]

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[@waltermaderner2126]

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[@elhistoriero1227]

I read the first Volume of his monumental biography and it teaches you so much about how ideology can shape a personality and how the paranoia that characterized Stalin's rule didn't stem only from his own character flaws but from the Ideology of the marxist-leninist utopia that shaped his understanding of the world. In general I think utopian and materialistic ideals might tend to produce such paranoid understanding of politics and history itself.

[@marcinkierzkowski2470]

Ending purged

[@chuckmartin935]

His recent interview on lex fridman podcast is even better-it's fascnating. The dude knows how to give charismatic presentations.

[@lionofjudah61967]

Very insightful, thanks for this lecture!

[@Johnconno]

Good to see Lorraine Bracco introduce calmer Joe. 💐

[@ned900]

Where is the last question!? Thanks for the upload, great session.

[@alexander3543]

Should’ve started with the ‘we want to go big, like in America’ explanation

[@matt3rd647]

I never thought Stalin an intellectual and workaholic. He is always portrayed as a mafia, street cunning type. Clearly this view is nonsense. Fascinating listening to Professor Kotkin talk about one of the giants of 20th century.

[@marcosffontes]

He was also a Bank robber , multiple-capability skills.

[@jcoltrane8976]

Eat vitamins, be strong like Stalin.

[@kuryenlaindia]

those boots my goodness!

[@vhawk1951kl]

ho hum, girls will be girls- they notice such trivialities.

[@kuryenlaindia]

oh, hum @@vhawk1951kl did I make too trivial a comment for a male, do tell me more please, and be blunt, as a real man like yourself should

[@sld1776]

Stephen is awesome. Ha ha!

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

Yes ❤🤣😁

[@tmnvanderberg]

3:00 Stephen shows up

[@adamwaugh3373]

I've heard about method acting, but I haven't heard of method academic research (nice boots)

[@eleonoraformatoneeszczepan8807]

40:12 min ... "trusting you" ... yes.

[@helmutsecke3529]

Brother Kotkin went native.

[@vhawk1951kl]

The exact quote is that power *Tends* to corrupt, Not power corrupts.

[@synon9m]

Doesn't matter. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@lieshtmeiser5542]

Didnt know that it was a lowly baronet that was credited with that...perhaps posthumously promote him to Marquess for a major contribution to western culture with that one.

[@JulioHuato]

The lack of power corrupts. The absolute lack of power corrupts absolutely.

[@johni4213]

Joe Pesci as an intellectual!

[@dougjstl1]

what kind of booties he wares???

[@edmundlubega9647]

I would like to listen to Stephen Kotkin face an audience that more sympathetic to Stalin. It would be great to have him debate Prof. Grover Furr a great critic of Kotkin's books

[@ingenuity168]

Love those boots 😁

[@dimitriosfromgreece4227]

Yes yes 😉❤

[@nicholasd7107]

He said OMG and then it stops bruhhhh what was the question

[@fuckfannyfiddlefart]

Imagine the sacrifices made by the people of the USSR only to have it thrown away by the corrupt alcoholic Yeltsin and traitor Gorbachev.

[@lieshtmeiser5542]

"Imagine the sacrifices made by the people of the USSR only to have it thrown away..." Nice trolling... Perhaps observe, you dont have to imagine, all the people of the former soviet union that were sacrificed, and their futures stolen, by leaders like Stalin...thats really what you shouldve said.

[@jackiwannapaint3042]

Im paying $8.99/month to watch lame films on Netflix and this guy is gratis!

[@RonaldMcPaul]

3:03

[@radiantmessenger3369]

Very informative about Stalin. Also, Let's go Brandon.

[@rrgaaful]

0 Symphaty he wears like Stalin

[@davidcoleman2463]

Stalin's wife told him this .called him a murderer . In public . She then killed herself or Stalin had her killed . Amazing history and still so important even today .

[@virtualyogaschool]

Attempts to revive something from the past of the USSR, to revive fear and devotion to that power, in relation to oneself in Russia, or in Belarus, are worthy of contempt. There is one very significant difference between those and the current leaders. The former BELIEVED. Yes, they were cruel, inhuman, but they also sacrificed their destinies, their relatives, and their well-being. This is the main difference 6:57

[@user-rg9yz5ou4y]

A 'detail" that you leave out is that Stalin purged nearly every Communist leader in the "second" and "third" tiers--meaning for the most part, member of the Party's Central Committee. As Khruschev revealed in his famous "secret speech" of 1956--two thirds of all members of the Central Committe of the Communist Party in 1934 was was from all of their offices and either executed or sentenced to long, indefinite prison sentences in Siberia.

[@jackiwannapaint3042]

Am I seeing things? A funny historian?

[@westnash]

This is an incomplete video and clickbait and should be purged as the original full video is on CSPN Book TV

[@jamesmurphy9105]

In truth the farmers are holding the grain for higher prices ! In truth the possibility of being incapable to food the cities and the army was going to happen in 1929 Why doesn't he mentioned that like in the book

[@listener523]

Because the book is about Stalin and his motivations. It's a biography remember?

[@jamesmurphy2828]

listener523 I require more Details this is Stalin not Mickey Mouse I guess with Let History Judge warped my expectations

[@leechristy7003]

He works for the Hoover institution at Stanford as well - That's no accident. They like his bent.

[@eirikbelisarius1100]

So the poor farmers wanted a fair price for their work. Why is that a problem? 90-95 percent of the population lived on the countryside. Your idea of a fair system is that the party members in the cities go out on the countryside, evict the farmers from their homes, kill off 5-20 percent of the people in each village, confiscate the grain that they need to survive the winter, sell the grain on the international marked to pay for building a modern armament industry? If i worked the fields day out and day in I would also want a fair price. The entire system was morally bankrupt. It was not a people's republic. It very early on became a slave state.

[@Sheehan1]

How can someone so unpersonable also be so banal??

[@oceanhedonist265]

Have you ever been elected President of the United States? Didn't think so.

[@japayne21]

Amazing. You have a world class historian, talking about Stalin. And the second question is trying to portray trump in the same category. Clearly an ignorant person wrote the question.

[@drstrangelove09]

I love you, man! I really do... BUT (and you knew that a but was coming) I'm disappointed that: - you seem to have the usual anti-Trump inclination and - you seem to have the usual anti-male inclinations... shoot!

[@drstrangelove09]

@Ren·ais·sance man I've listen to a great deal of his content. I'm a fan. You're jumping to a conclusion. You don't actually know me. Is this how you generally interact with people? If you behave like this in general then it really isn't the best. Just sayin'. BTW, it's interesting that you use the term "Trump phenomenon"... it reveals some of your views.

[@brex50]

The goofy upside down triangle hand signaling makes me cringe

[@brex50]

@Ren·ais·sance man Maybe your a Zio-con Satanist...or worse...?